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Third Environment - Bombed Attic - For my third and final environment I'll be making a bombed out attic that people had been hiding in. This scene will focus more on environmental story telli...

Stranger Games - The 2016 Board Game Studies Colloquium is to be hosted at The German Games Archive in Nuremberg. I'll be giving a paper on the *spintriae*, curious Roman...

Inspirational Images to make a mood board for Cyber Club. - I enjoy cyber stuff, dark club atmosphere (Despite not ever going to a club or drinking or any social events really), and LED lights, thus I making a list...

new game journalism vs old game journalism - New game journalism focus's very heavily on the skills of the writer also on other online video platforms such as YouTube to allow people to post video gam...

La decima vittima - During out introduction to persuasive games, we learnt about an apparent somewhat popular game simply named "Killer". In Killer you essentially play the ro...

Matthew Applegate - Today we had a really interesting talk presented by Matthew Applegate (Musician, developer, lecturer, game designer, animator, teacher, hacker , author, )...

Matthew Applegate Lecture - Today we had a lecture from Matthew Applegate, and I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed this lecture because it is interesting to hear about how he progre...

Design Document: Tower of Ascension - The doors of the tower of ascension will soon open an event that only happens once every 100 years. Guilds have been preparing for this event and now gath...

Design Document - *My Design Document * The Design Document was to take my first assignment which was my iterated game and use it to create an design document. The game i...

Pervasive Games - Shared secrets and lies - When playing a game on a board, all the players know what is "in and out" of bounds. The field of play is defined by the board and does not intrude into...

New vs Old games journalism - Games journalism began in the same manner as most other journalism; very fact filled, focusing on the mechanics of a game and how it plays, and that's abo...

New Games Journal? Old Games Journal? - The dispute between New Games Journalism vs Old Games Journalism is basically the fight between a modern gun vs flintlock guns. The New Games Journalism is...

14. Duodecim Scripta - *Duodecim Scripta*This game is not complicated but i found a number of things i do not like about the game. One thing is the game is luck with like a litt...

Pervasive Games - Pervasive Games are games you play in real life a great example would be the movie we saw La Decima Vittima in Eddie's sessions, and another example would ...

Design Document - *Game Scenario* Space race is a simple board game based on the ancient game of Duodecim Scripta. The aim of the game is to get your spaceships into the g...

Design Document - In keeping with my previous Tafl iteration, the focus of this design document was mostly around the aesthetic of the board and pieces rather than the actua...

First solo project: Photonic Escape - For my first solo project I thought to myself to aim as high as possible. Obviously, my limited knowledge was the only boundary but this was not an iss...

Expanded Bibliography - 12/03/15 Brathwaite, B. and Schreiber, I. (2009). *Challenges for game designers*. Boston, Mass.: Charles River Media, a part of Course Technology. scott j...

Design Document part 2 - *Board Design* For my board design I started by making two mood boards one for sea textures and one for how other have used sea effects in boards games, bo...

New Games Journalism vs Old Games Journalism - It's interesting to note that although the phrase 'New Games Journalism' wasn't coined until 2004 by Kieron Gillen in a blog post of all things (considerin...

Expanded Bibliography - Books Bickham, J. M. (1997) *The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes*. United States: Writer’s Digest Books. Koster, R. and Wright, W. (2010) *A Theor...

Design Document Bits - A finalised concept of a King piece for my iterated version of Hnefatafl

Pervasive Games / La decima vittima - Pervasive games are games where people play a game in real life. An examples we looked at was a game where a group of people wondered around a city to hunt...

Top 85 Freeware Horror Indie Games - my thoughts - I was watching a video made by Tats TopVideos titled 'Top 85 Freeware Horror Indie Games' today, during watching the video I was noticing a trend in mos...

An alteration of Hnefatafl - As part of our course we altered our game of choice. I had Hnefatafl as my game of choice and I had decided to only make a few alterations. It would be a...

Race Game Workshop - On our final session with Eddie, we had a race game workshop with David Parlett. He started by asking us what is the definition of a race game, what do we ...

Group Project: Pixel Art - During my 2nd group project our team decided that we were going to do pixel art for our game on "The Road". I personally had never done pixel art before, b...

Joystick Generation - This Final installation in the Games Britannia series hits a soft spot in my heart, Video Games. Wooley starts by discussing the revolutionary games of the ...

Parlett's Wisdom - *Workshop with Parlett.* We began the session by talking over one of Mr. Parlett's most famous and prestigious games "Hare and Tortoise" he eplained his rea...

La Decima Vittima/The 10th Victim (Spoilers ....Duh) - Adding to my previous blog post about Pervasive Games I would like to talk about the film La Decima Vittima or to you and me The 10th Victim. Now this film...

My solo game: Ball is life - when designing my solo game I did come across some problems when making it, near the end when it was coming up to the deadline I have computer problems whi...

Mood board for design document ( general and invaders) - For the next assignment we have to make a design document for the iterations to a chosen ancient board game (tablut). The reason I have chose to do a moo...

Race Game Workshop - David Parlett - On our last Thursday with Eddie , on 5th March, we had a meeting with David Parlett. He presented us a lot of aspects to think about when it comes to race ...

Pervasive Games. - Pervasive games are games where the fictional game extends into the real world. An example of this would be the Assassin games people play where they have ...

La Decima Vittima - La Decima Vittima ( The 10th Victim) is an Italian film which is kind of like a real version of the pervasive game the assassins. The characters in the fil...

- *Games Britannia Part 3* In an earlier blog I spoke about the first part of the Game Britannia programme where Benjamin Woolley Introduced us to some games...

Royal Game of Err.... - *The following is an essay on my iterations for the Royal Game of Ur, a game that in it's current state is horribly flawed, but this aims to improve.* The...

British Museum Trip - I missed out on the Museum trip on the 4th of December, not because of choice but because i am already in my overdraft so it's not something i could afford...

My thoughts on the game of Tafl. - So a little while back we played the board game known as Tafl. In it's core game play mechanics it is a lot like a small mixture of chess and checkers. It...

Games Britannia: Monopolies and Mergers - In this episode of Games Britannia Woolley looks at games that are more modern than the last episode (Dicing with Destiny) starting with a 18th-19th cent...

Bibliography Practice - *-Full Book* Castillo, T. Novak, J. (2005) *Game Development Essentials Game Level Design. *Clifton Park, NY. Cengage Learning. *-Reader* Becker, A. (2007)...

Battleships! Enhancing the rules - The game of *Battleships* landed in many childhoods and it not surprising how well children and adults took to this as, I propose, the target audiences wer...

Post 1 : Questionnaire - 1) Books that you have read most recently? "The Last Four Things", a book about Thomas Cale in a world where religious extremist are everywhere and he is t...

Bibliography - *Bilbiography* Feil. J And Scattergood. M (2005), *Beginning Game Level Design, *Premier Press Game Development, Boston. M.L Rosenthal (1966), *Th...

Autologorrhea - I've never been much for blogging, I've always felt that if I wanted to consistently offend as many people as possible I'd simply wander through bus statio...

- *What is the title of a book of fiction that you have, or are currently reading?* Over the summer I have been reading novels by Daphne du Maurier. She i...

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